With less feed in bunkers, bags and silos, it becomes easier to evaluate storage structures and address maintenance needs ...

January’s beautiful white flakes have become fetid mounds of New York City snow. The heaping piles are now a disgusting pee-stained mix of garbage and brown patches to be avoided at all costs. But ...

In a droughty year, when we have really, really dry conditions, all of a sudden more of that corn goes into the silage pile. We end up some of the low yielding crop instead of running through the ...

The CLAAS Jaguar 1200 — the highest horsepower model of the new Jaguar 1000 series — set a new official world record, harvesting 4,515 tons of whole crop wheatlage in 12 hours. The record, set in June ...

PERHAM — On a dairy farm there is always plenty of work to be done. As the owners of Sandhill Dairy Farm in rural Perham looked at a pile of feed that needed to be covered, they saw a three-to-four ...

Bob Parsons, shown on Oct. 2, said his family harvested less corn this year on their farm in Gorham because of the drought. The corn silage is used to feed their dairy cows throughout the year.

“He who has forage is king.” My kids are likely to have this saying etched into my tombstone as they have no doubt heard it multiple times. I love chopping silage. The sheer volume of feed you make ...

Corn silage harvest is a critical time of year for dairy and beef operations, as the quality of the silage harvested determines the farm’s success or failure for the following year. As drier weather ...

Corn silage harvest is a critical time of year for dairy and beef operations, as the quality of the silage harvested determines the farm's success or failure for the following year. As drier weather ...

The Vermont growing season offers a short window to produce, harvest, and store nutrients in the form of forages for dairy cattle, including hay crop silage and corn silage. This process can be ...